Chapter Fifty-Four: Military Intelligence

After listening to Zhu Dashan's analysis, everyone instantly felt that their expressions were lifted, and it was not too difficult to say this anti-Qing thing. Just outside the hall, a voice suddenly said: "According to what you say, isn't this anti-Qing matter an easy matter, we have been joking around for so many years." ”

Everyone turned their heads and saw a military general walking majestically outside the door, and then saw Wen Anzhi following behind. Zhu Dashan hurriedly got up and said: "Looking at the general's dragon and tiger steps, there is no doubt that it must be the king of Jingguo, the king of Guangxing." Li Laiheng and others also stepped forward to salute.

Wen Anzhi in the back followed in and said: "Ping Yuhou, Xia Guan is fortunate not to be dishonored, and now Jing Guogong has also agreed to reorganize." The air I blew in front of the Ping Hou was finally finished. Zhu Dashan hurriedly said: "Don't you dare to say that, everyone is here to resist the Qing Dynasty, and they rely on the generosity of Kuidong everyone's understanding, if it weren't for this, it would have been so smooth." Although Zhu Dashan said this, the joy on his face was still indescribable. This Jingguo Duke Guangxing was originally a regular official of the Ming Dynasty, and he had joined forces with Kuidong, Li Laiheng and others before, all relying on Wen Anzhi to adjust in the middle. So as soon as he heard that Zhu Dashan wanted to reorganize the entire Kuidong, he immediately did not agree, so Wen Anzhi went to Wang Guangxing's camp to persuade him, and now he finally agreed to accept the reorganization to give Zhu Dashan another help.

Wang Guangxing said with a smile: "Tell me, why is it so simple to resist Qing in your mouth?" Let's talk about it, so that we can hear and learn. Zhu Dashan said: "It's not that what I said is very simple, but we don't have to think about it too hard." In the past, the people of the Ming Dynasty were all involved in each other's efforts and hindered each other for various reasons. If we didn't have these infighting, would we be able to rely on a small tribe of hundreds of thousands of people in Manchuria to get the world? Hearing Zhu Dashan's words, everyone present was a little moved, but if they could resist the Qing Dynasty with just these few words, no one could believe it.

Wang Guangxing said: "You don't have to say some big words, empty words. It's so easy to resist the Qing Dynasty, and if it's really easy, it would take so many heroes to die. Zhu Dashan said: "This is not a big talk, an empty word. Aren't we doing that right now? As long as we eliminate internal friction, we will definitely dare to go to the Manchurians. Then Zhu Dashan said to Wang Xi: "Can you tell me about the current situation of the Qing court?" Wang Xi hesitated and said: "I don't know the specific situation, I only know that when Li Guoying said that you were waiting for you to rise up in Baoning, Li Guoying was defeated in the war, and the imperial court had no troops to transfer. wanted to transfer the king of Pingxi Wu Sanguo back to Sichuan, but was blocked by Sony, he said that now a large number of Ming troops in western Sichuan, southern Sichuan and other places have surrendered, it is better to use these local Ming troops in Sichuan to quell the rebellion. It can also consume a large number of these green battalion soldiers to reduce the burden on the imperial court. ”

Wang Xi said and looked at the crowd again: "In the first two months, Zheng Chenggong attacked Jiangning, and the imperial court's garrison in Jiangnan had nowhere to be mobilized, and it was almost necessary to transfer the eight banners of the capital to the south to support. As a result, before the imperial court discussed the specific matters of sending troops, Jiang Ning said that Zheng Chenggong had been defeated. ”

After hearing Wang Xi's story, Zhu Dashan kept looking at the map, thinking: "Now the whole Huguang can be said to be completely empty, if you can rush into Huguang, the Huguang Qing army will definitely not be able to hold it, you can control Sichuan, Huguang and the two provinces, and then go south to seize Guangxi and Guizhou, you can completely trap the Qing army in Yunnan, but do you have such a force now?" I only have about 50,000 people in total. And will these newly reorganized armies be able to accomplish their plans? ”

Zhu Dashan looked at Huguang's piece of fat and was very moved. If you don't take it now, when the Qing court finds out, and then return to Junhuguang, then you won't have such a good opportunity again. But now if he captures Huguang, then the Qing court will inevitably use all its energy to deal with himself, although he just said easily, but that is the Qing court did not deal with himself at all, and only Li Guoying's local army has been fighting with him, so that he can always get the advantage, this still takes advantage of the sudden beheading and killing of Gao Minzhan, resulting in the lack of information of the Qing army in various places, so that the Qing army in various places has the advantage of underestimating the enemy. If the Qing army attaches importance to itself, can it still win like this? Is your own tactical strategy really stronger than that of the ancients?

Looking at the fat thrown in front of his eyes, Zhu Dashan suddenly felt that he couldn't eat it, and he didn't dare to eat it. But if you don't go to Huguang and wait until the Qing soldiers return from Guizhou, what will you do? Is he capable of confronting hundreds of thousands of Qing troops head-on?

The people present saw that Zhu Dashan suddenly looked at Yutu and stopped talking, his face was sometimes fierce, sometimes distressed, and sometimes very confused. For a while, everyone didn't know what to do, and they didn't know what Zhu Dashan wanted to do.

Li Laiheng saw that Zhu Dashan had been looking at Yutu and didn't speak, and asked, "What is Ping Yuhou thinking?" Any challenges? Zhu Dashan's mind was full of whether to fight Huguang or not and what the consequences of beating Huguang would bring, and when he heard Li Laiheng ask, he replied casually: "I'm thinking about whether we want to attack Huguang." ”

As soon as Zhu Dashan's words came out, everyone present was frightened, and Li Laiheng also came over and touched Zhu Dashan's forehead and said: "You can't be a fever, back then, the Jin King's hundreds of thousands of troops failed to defeat Huguang, and now you say that you want to fight Huguang, isn't this looking for death?" ”

Wang Guangxing also said: "Don't think nonsense, what I just said just now is to remind everyone not to be too optimistic, and I don't mean to force Ping Yuhou to attack Huguang now." Wen Anzhi also said: "Yes, now the reorganized army is full of 50,000 people, and it has to guard the place, even if you add the 10,000 horses of Jing Guogong now, it is only 60,000 people, and you can attack Huguang there. For a while, everyone in the audience persuaded Zhu Dashan not to be impulsive, and Zhu Dashan also felt that this decision was a bit Meng Lang.

At this moment, a person suddenly came in from outside the door, and the guards at the door did not dare to stop him. I saw that this person had the word "hand" embroidered on his chest, which was Zhu Dashan remembered the express delivery industry in later generations, but now there is no such industry, so he asked Lin Zhuang to embroider all the people in the Military Intelligence Department, indicating the meaning of the messenger, so that the Qing army could not find it and intercept it.

After the man came in, he directly said to Zhu Dashan to send the information that Lin Zhuang sent this time, and waited for Zhu Dashan to read it. Li Laiheng asked, "Pingyuhou, what's wrong?" Everyone else also looked at Zhu Dashan expectantly.

Zhu Dashan passed the information in his hand to Li Laiheng and the others, and said, "It seems that I can solve Li Guoying before I can think about other things." Li Laiheng read while reading: "Detective report, Li Guoying gathered 30,000 horses in Chongqing to prepare to attack Baoning, and the accompanying generals included Hui Yingzhao, Tan Xinchuan, Zhao Sancai, Huo Guangxian, Jia Deng, Hou Tianxi, Deng Jiushao, Wang Tingxian, etc., and sent troops to Dingyuan County. Chen Xixian, the commander of Xuzhou, Cao Chunzhong, the general of Luzhou, Hao Chengyi, the deputy general of Jiading, Wang Youjin, Chen Jian, and others led the headquarters to Dingyuan to converge, and Du Xue, the general of Wuyi in Lushan, Yang Guoming, the general of Qiongzhou, and Wu Guoyong, the general of Meizhou, each led the troops and horses of the headquarters to go to Chengdu through Tongchuan Mansion, and joined Lu Guangzu stationed in Yanting to attack the south. A total of about 80,000 troops were assembled this time, claiming to be 100,000. Li Guoying set to pacify Boryeong Mansion within a month and open the passage to the north. There is also the general army of Long'an Mansion, Zuo Xian, Ma Huabao sent troops to attack Qinglinkou, planning to attack Jianzhou after breaking through Qinglinkou. ”

As soon as Li Laiheng finished reading the military situation, everyone present took a deep breath. Hao Yongzhong said: "My God, this is an army of 100,000. We're only 50,000 people, which is twice as much. Even Liu Tichun and Li Laiheng's faces changed, and they felt that they had no bottom in their hearts.

Looking at the discussions among the people present, all of them talked about how the 100,000 army was, Zhu Dashan's heart calmed down, not as impetuous as just now. Zhu Dashan quietly watched the people in the hall arguing, and suddenly understood that if he wanted to complete the resistance to the Qing Dynasty, he would probably have to rely on himself in a short time. Because the shadow of the Qing army is very powerful has been buried in the hearts of these people, it cannot be erased without experiencing several major wars. Zhu Dashan suddenly remembered Gou Xingwang and Song Gao, if they were there, they would definitely not have such a feeling. I'm afraid that they have already clamored to defeat the Qing army and kill them without leaving a piece of armor. Thinking of this, Zhu Dashan slowly sat down. I kept thinking about how to deal with the Qing army's attack, and from time to time I found the location on the map.

After arguing for a while, they saw that Zhu Dashan was just thinking quietly, and gradually quieted down. Zhu Dashan was about to talk about his thoughts, when there was a hearty laugh outside the door, and then several people walked in together.

Zhu Dashan saw that Song Gaoju, Ma Yuanjie, Cheng Deyi, and Lin Kejia were back, and Zhu Dashan was overjoyed: "I didn't expect you to come back together, look at you, now you are all general-level figures, why are you still so rough." ”

Song Gaoju and the others first greeted the princes and Hou Ye, and Song Gaoju said: "Hou Ye said that he laughed, we are all mud legs, where did those rules come from." The other three also coaxed. Li Laiheng and the others saw that the four of them were all men with true temperament, and also said: "Yes, these generals under Master Hou are all good men with true temperament." We old bones can't compare. ”

It's just that Zhang Huangyan looks a little unaccustomed to it, but Zhang Huangyan is also a person who has led soldiers, and he doesn't care about it at the moment. Zhu Dashan said: "Don't talk yet, there was a military situation from Lin Zhuang's side just now, I'm afraid we have to rush back to Baoning." Cheng Deyi asked: "I don't know what kind of military situation it is, do you need us all to go back?" ”

Liu Tichun told the military situation just now, and said: "Only then did Li Guoying send 80,000 troops, and if you connect the army on the side of Long'an Mansion, there may really be 100,000 people." It's not going to be easy to fight this time. Ma Yuanjie said with a big grin: "What's not easy to fight, they are not the same as carrying a head on two shoulders, I don't believe that I can't beat them." Song Gaoju also said: "That is, we 5,000 people dare to fight 10,000, and 150 people dare to fight Baoning, what is there to be afraid of, don't we also have 50,000 people now?" Why are there too many people and they are timid? ”

Lin Kejia also had some mental obstacles to the Qing soldiers before, but after so many battles, it has long since lost any impact. also said: "That's it, it's over beating him." Aren't they just relying on the large number of people, so we will beat them down before they have even converged. ”

When everyone in Kuidong saw a few people, they didn't care about the Qing soldiers at all, and they all felt a little arrogant. Wen Anzhi: "Generals, not all the Qing soldiers are useless, we still have to be cautious." Everyone in Kuidong present nodded and said, "Yes, yes, don't be arrogant, this arrogant soldier will be defeated." ”

Zhu Dashan kept watching everyone without speaking, and saw that everyone's opinions were about to be divided into two factions. Zhu Dashan was afraid of affecting the cooperation in the future, after all, this was the first time that he fought side by side after the whole army. Said: "The Qing army is powerful, we have to fight, the Qing army is not powerful, we also have to fight." Therefore, whether the Qing army is strong or not has no impact on our strategy, and we are all going to fight. ”

Song Gaoju and the others immediately said: "Hou Ye is right, no matter what he is, we and the Qing soldiers are going to fight, since we want to fight, it is better to put everything aside and fight generously." Even if you die, you are a hero, if you don't even have the courage to fight, and it's useless to be a soldier, it's better to go home and have a hot kang head for your wife and children. ”

Zhu Dashan saw that what Song Gaoju and the others said was a bit excessive, and if he continued to talk about it, he would hurt the face of everyone in Kuidong. said: "I know the battle in one day, and now I am still playing around with hundreds of people?" One thought, one thought, is the lives of thousands of people right now. Listen well. ”

Song Gaoju and the others saw Zhu Dashan speak, and immediately did not dare to say any more, although Zhu Dashan and Song Gaoju and others were a small action, but the people of Kuidong also felt the difference between the people of Baoning and the generals of Kuidong, that is, people dared to fight, but they were afraid of Kuidong. seems to understand why he has so many people who have not been able to occupy the county seat, and the people have fought several county towns as soon as they came.

But these things in Zhang Huangyan's eyes saw some other differences, the generals under Ping Yuhou themselves, very arrogant and domineering, they were not afraid of heaven and earth, but Ping Yuhou was just a fluttering sentence, these people immediately behaved, Ping Yuhou was very strict in governing the army, and it was also very prestigious.